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title: "Follow companies and request access"
description: "Keep up with a company's public activity, and ask it to share permissioned material with you."
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# Follow companies and request access

Following and requesting access do different jobs. Follow a company to keep up with what it makes public. Request access when you want something it keeps private. Following never grants access.

## Follow a company

1. **Open the company's page**

   Open the **Company actions** menu (the ⋮ button beside the company name).
2. **Choose Follow**

   Sign in if asked. The company doesn't need to approve this. The action
   changes to **Following**.

To stop following, choose **Following** again. If the action isn't in the menu, the profile can't be followed in its current state, for example because it's archived.

Companies you follow appear in the **Following** view of your [Feed](https://www.sureshake.com/feed). Check the Feed rather than expecting an email for each update.

Follower identities and totals are visible to the company's administrators, not to other visitors.

### Following a person

Following a person works differently. On a person's profile, **Follow** sends a request for them to review in their Action Center. Choose **Cancel follow request** to withdraw it. See your connections and follows on your [Network](https://www.sureshake.com/network) page.

## Request access to a locked tab

A company can share a tab only with approved viewers. A tab like this is marked **Locked** and opens to a message that it's permissioned. The protected values aren't sent to your browser.

1. **Start the request**

   Open the locked tab and choose **Request access**. You'll also find
   **Request access** in the **Company actions** menu.
2. **Sign in**

   Your identity is attached to the request, so you need to be signed in.
3. **Complete the form**

   Choose a **Requester role**: Investor, Lender, Buyer, Advisor, Founder, or
   Other. Add a **Request note** saying why you're asking.
4. **Submit**

   The request goes to the company's managers, who can approve or reject it. A
   company page request applies only to that tab.

When a request is approved, the tab opens for you on the company page. Protected values stay masked until then. The company can revoke access later.

### Requesting a single report

A request for a specific private report covers only that report. Approval gives you read access to its published version, and to nothing else.

### When you won't see Request access

The option appears only where a company has set up a permissioned tab. Reference profiles don't offer it, because nobody manages the profile yet. If the public record is enough for what's on a page, there's nothing to request.

## Read what's been shared with you

Go to [Shared with Me](https://www.sureshake.com/shared-with-me) for reports and documents shared with you. Use **All** and **Unread** to filter, and search across them. Each item shows who shared it and what you're allowed to do: **View Only**, **Can Comment**, or **Can Suggest**.

A **Withdrawn** badge means the owner has withdrawn it, and when. Founders control this from [Share reports](/founders/sharing/).

Source: https://docs.sureshake.com/investors/following-and-access/index.mdx